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Person wrecking web programme has raised regret after it (8)

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I believe the answer is:

saboteur

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'person' is the definition.
(saboteur is a kind of person)

'raised regret after it' is the wordplay.
'raised' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in a down clue).
'regret' becomes 'rue' (to rue something is to regret it).
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'it' becomes 'sabot' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rue' back-to-front is 'eur'.
'eur' after 'sabot' is 'SABOTEUR'.

'wrecking web programme has' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for saboteur that I've seen before include "Rue boast about one who inflicts deliberate damage" , "One who causes deliberate damage to plants or machinery" , "Hacker possibly" , "One who disrupts or damages by design" , "One engaged in malicious disruption" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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